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Reports that the U.S. government's list of banned airline passengers has grown from just 16 names on September 11, 2001 to thousands of people in 2004 amid signs of internal confusion and dissension over how the list is implemented. Tight security maintained over the list; Lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union under the Freedom of Information Act on behalf of two women from San Francisco, California.

An editorial is presented which discusses the first National Security Strategy report of U.S. President Donald Trump on topics including national security policy, the significance of country's leadership, and global stability of allies.

The F.B.I's insistence that the bureau examine the private papers of the late journalist Jack Anderson is reported. Anderson spent a number of decades in Washington investigating government corruption and the actions of secretive government agencies such as the F.B.I. and the C.I.A. Anderson's family vows to go to jail rather than give access to the F.B.I. The bureau contends that it is illegal for private unauthorized persons to possess classified materials, which the collection allegedly contains.

The article looks at the rough treatment of foreigners traveling into the U.S. with faulty visa papers. Department of Homeland Security officials have acknowledged that with increased efforts to keep terrorists out of the U.S. since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, some mistakes and harsh handling of foreigners, who only had small paperwork errors or were caught in a bureaucratic circle, had occurred.

Focuses on the capability of police to get in the way of keeping papers secret in the U.S. Release of a secret document describing omens of a catastrophic terrorist attack in 2001; Capability of political imperatives to sometimes force officials to set aside government's normal procedures for classifying and declassifying national security information; Federal rule in releasing secret information.

The article reports that Great Britain Prime Minister David Cameron accused the newspaper "The Guardian" of damaging national security after it published material leaked by the fugitive American intelligence contractor Edward J. Snowden.

Reports on the plan to Japanese Defense Agency to issue another annual defense white paper as a version of a "manga" comic book to increase readership of the white paper.

The article reports that the U.S. Homeland Security officials informed the Senate Finance Committee that the nation require new border security arrangements. The officials informed that the border guards are facing problems in identifying counterfeit driver licenses and birth certificates. Customs and Border Protection's assistant commissioner, Jayson Ahern informed lawmakers that implementing stringent requirements for people coming into the country should not be delayed.

Deals with the issue on criminal violation on the released of sensitive national-security information by the U.S. Treasury Department to former Secretary Paul O'Neill.

The U.S. Treasury Departments' inspector general reported that treasury officials should not have released 140 of 19,000 documents that former Secretary Paul H. O'Neill requested and was given after his dismissal in December 2002. O'Neill, however did nothing wrong , the investigations concluded. The inspector general said that material should have been classified first. He said that mislabeling had caused the release of the national security or sensitive but unclassified material, however no one had broken any law.

The article focuses on the poised threats to the integrity of access to documents and artifacts of national importance following the controversies that have arisen in the scholarly community in the U.S. These controversies are the permission of the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration for some federal agencies to withdraw classified documents from public view, the agreement of the Smithsonian Institution with Showtime Networks Inc. to create an on-demand cable-television channel, and the intent of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation wants to search the papers of the late investigative journalist Jack Anderson. According to historians these controversies should be a matter of concern to the entire scholarly community and the largest public because if these continue, all threaten the Americans' understanding of the past, and the present.

The article discusses claims by Alan Rusbridger, editor of newspaper "The Guardian," that the paper has been the subject of both British and U.S. government intimidation efforts following the paper's release of government documents leaked by former U.S. National Security Agency (N.S.A.) contractor Edward J. Snowden. Topics addressed include debate regarding the relationship between press freedom and national security, as well as the paper's efforts to guard against government surveillance.

The article informs that the Homeland Security Department today called on the cargo industry to help develop a national strategy to ensure the protection of the United States' supply chain. More than 20,000 containers enter the United States daily, Homeland Secretary said, and jurisdictions in the distribution process overlap. To begin the effort, he presented a working paper to cargo industry stakeholders during the first of a two-day meeting hosted by the Homeland Security Institute. That paper recommends that U.S. customs officials create a multilateral information-sharing system with its foreign trading partners and establish international standards for security, data and system architectures.

BEIJING -- The Chinese military said Thursday that while the security situation in Asia and the Pacific was generally stable, it was becoming ''more intricate and volatile,'' with no clear solutions for tension points like the divided Korean Peninsula and with the United States increasing its involvement in regional issues. The military's vision was laid out in a national defense white paper, a document published every two years since 1998. The paper tried to walk a line between trumpeting the modernization efforts of the Chinese military and assuaging the fears of foreign governments and analysts that the fast-growing People's Liberation Army would be used for expansionist purposes or regional dominance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

China said Tuesday that it faces threats from independence movements related to Taiwan, Tibet and the western desert region of Xinjiang, and that American arms sales to Taiwan jeopardize stability in Asia. The assessment came in a white paper on national defense released by the State Council, China's cabinet. The paper said that ''China's security situation has improved steadily,'' but that ''being in a stage of economic and social transition, China is encountering many new circumstances and new issues in maintaining social stability.'' [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article reports that U.S. House Democrats unveiled their national security vision that recommends enlarging the military's ground forces by 100,000 troops and bolstering recruiting and retention. Their 15-page position paper criticizes the White House for "fiscal irresponsibility" and seeks to institute pay-as-you-go budget rules. Adding 100,000 troops to the military's end-strength would add roughly $10 billion annually to personnel costs alone, a pricey proposition that military leaders have feared would put expensive modernization programs at risk.

The author reflects on U.S. President Barack Obama's plan to register and grant working papers to millions of undocumented people who have been working in the country for several years, highlighting several security concerns that may arise from the immigration plan.

The article discusses a white paper released by the Japanese administration of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Japanese national security policies and Japan's interest in tightening Japan-U.S. relations, in light of China's military influence toward the region and territorial disputes.

The article criticizes China's messages about its military buildup as it presents supposedly five false messages in its defense white paper "China's National Defense in 2010" according to the U.S. Defense Department in 2011. It believes that China is not being transparent by understating its defense spending. China's anti-space weaponization view allegedly makes no mention of its 2007 direct-ascent anti-satellite (ASAT) weapons test which destroyed its own satellite in space. China is deemed the world's biggest supplier of weapons of mass destruction.

NOGALES, Mexico -- Despite its intent to ''discourage and deter'' unlawful entry to the United States, Arizona's tough new immigration law is not what prevented Veronica from sneaking into the state without papers. After all, she had already endured a harrowing train ride, escaped dangerous drug traffickers and eluded Mexican authorities who were after the money she had stuffed in her underwear. Veronica did not make it to the United States, she said glumly, simply because she got nervous. Her palms got sweaty and she slipped off the pole she and others in her group were shimmying up to get over the border fence and into Arizona. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The Justice Department indicated that it was not backing away from the argument used by the Bush administration that courts should use national security concerns to block a lawsuit brought by an Islamic group that says its rights had been violated. Department lawyers filed papers with a Federal District Court in San Francisco asking for a stay in a judge's ruling that the ''state secrets'' doctrine could not be used in the Islamic group's lawsuit. The group, al-Haramain, has argued that its officers and lawyers were illegally wiretapped in a secret surveillance program by the National Security Administration. The Justice Department under President Bush invoked the state secrets doctrine in asking the court to dismiss the case. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

This article reports on research materials that may be used for terrorist purposes. The U.S. National Security Advisory Board for Biosecurity has made recommendations that colleges and research institutions review papers and presentations that may serve terrorist purposes. The recommendations also have asked research-review panels to provide contextual and explanatory information within research that may minimize terrorist concerns.

Reports that the Federal Bureau of Investigation is on the verge of scrapping a $170 million computer overhaul that is considered critical to the campaign against terrorism but has been riddled with technical and planning problems. Last-ditch efforts to evaluate the mounting problems in creating a "paperless" work system and to determine whether any parts of the project can be salvaged; Possibility of using off-the-shelf software instead of the expensive customized features it has unsuccessfully sought to develop; Setback for the F.B.I. in a decade-long struggle to escape a paper-driven culture and replace antiquated computer systems that have hobbled counterterrorism and criminal investigations; Suggestion that the success of the effort is critical to domestic security.

Discusses the efforts of Carlos Feliz to care for his daughter Virginia, after his wife Berly was deported. How Berly was deported to Honduras after an immigration office found an old deportation order when she went to have her work papers renewed; Claims that there are tens of thousands of children who lose a parent to deportation annually; Impact of the broken families on schools and mental health clinics nationwide; Enforcement of laws by the Department of Homeland Security which do not allow immigration officers to consider family ties before enforcing an old order of removal; Efforts of federal officials to refer children to social services if necessary and leave time for parents to make appropriate arrangements for their children.

Former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani told the commission investigating the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks that warnings of a possible terrorist attack on New York City contained in an August 2001 White House briefing paper never reached City Hall, but likely would not have changed local security precautions, the Associated Press reported. The briefing referred to evidence of buildings in New York possibly being cased by terrorists. "If that information had been given to us, or more warnings had been given in the summer of 2001, I can't honestly tell you we'd do anything differently," Giuliani testified.

This article focuses on a military injustice in Guantanamo, Cuba in which Captain James Yee, the former Muslim chaplain had been arrested on suspicion of espionage but six months later the charges were dropped. Military officials insist that the persecution was halted only to keep sensitive information from becoming public. However, what they are really trying to hide from view is not national security secrets, but the incompetence and mean-spiritedness of their prosecution. Captain Yee was arrested last September after inspectors found what they claimed were suspicious paper in his luggage.

Focuses on the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation and its surveillance of Puerto Rican groups. Effort of Ramón Bosque-Pérez to preserve the FBI records on the independence movement in Puerto Rico; Details of the secret files, which have been declassified; Inventory of the files at Hunter College in New York by the researcher and students working for the Center for Puerto Rican Studies; History of the political movements in Puerto Rico; Assassination attempt on President Harry S. Truman; Directives from FBI director J. Edgar Hoover concerning the surveillance of activists; How the existence of the FBI papers was discovered; Indication that there were informants on the island; Role of Pedro Albizu Campos in Puerto Rico's Nationalist Party and the struggle for independence.

Reports that homeland security officials called on citizens to purchase duct tape, plastic sheeting, and food and water to prepare for a possible chemical or biological terrorist attack. Advice to Americans to assemble disaster-supply kits, including food, water, and medical supplies; Perception that advance preparation could save lives during a disaster; Raising of the terrorism alert level to "orange" by the administration of U.S. President George W. Bush; Idea that the government has complicated the ability of the public to assess threat levels by issuing vague warnings which lack specific information on timing or mode of attack.